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A Comparison of Standardized Letters of Evaluation for Emergency Medicine Residency Applicants
INTRODUCTION: Medical students pursuing an emergency medicine (EM) residency are advised to obtain at least two Standardized Letters of Evaluation (SLOE). Students often complete one rotation at their home institution and at least one “away” rotation at a program separate from their home institution...
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Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7806313/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33439798 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2020.12.49086 |
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author | Wilson, David Laoteppitaks, Chaiya Chandra, Shruti |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Medical students pursuing an emergency medicine (EM) residency are advised to obtain at least two Standardized Letters of Evaluation (SLOE). Students often complete one rotation at their home institution and at least one “away” rotation at a program separate from their home institution. The SLOE was introduced as an objective evaluation tool. The aim of this study was to determine whether there was a difference in scores between home rotation and away rotation SLOEs. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed the SLOEs of all applicants to an urban, academic EM residency program. For each SLOE, we calculated a composite score from rankings in seven “Qualifications for EM” (CS7), and converted comparative rank score (CRS) and estimated rank list position (ERP) to percentile scores. The CS7, CRS, and ERP on the home rotation SLOE were compared to those of the away SLOE using a paired t-test. RESULTS: An evaluation of 721 applicants with at least one home SLOE and one away SLOE demonstrated a significant increase in the ERP of home rotators (P = 0.003). The data did not demonstrate a statistically significant difference in the CS7 (P = 0.69), or CRS (P = 0.97). CONCLUSION: Our study demonstrated that the only difference in SLOEs is that students are likely to be given a slightly higher estimated placement on the rank order list on a home SLOE. We hope this will help residency leadership with reviewing applications. |
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spelling | pubmed-78063132021-01-21 A Comparison of Standardized Letters of Evaluation for Emergency Medicine Residency Applicants Wilson, David Laoteppitaks, Chaiya Chandra, Shruti West J Emerg Med Original Research INTRODUCTION: Medical students pursuing an emergency medicine (EM) residency are advised to obtain at least two Standardized Letters of Evaluation (SLOE). Students often complete one rotation at their home institution and at least one “away” rotation at a program separate from their home institution. The SLOE was introduced as an objective evaluation tool. The aim of this study was to determine whether there was a difference in scores between home rotation and away rotation SLOEs. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed the SLOEs of all applicants to an urban, academic EM residency program. For each SLOE, we calculated a composite score from rankings in seven “Qualifications for EM” (CS7), and converted comparative rank score (CRS) and estimated rank list position (ERP) to percentile scores. The CS7, CRS, and ERP on the home rotation SLOE were compared to those of the away SLOE using a paired t-test. RESULTS: An evaluation of 721 applicants with at least one home SLOE and one away SLOE demonstrated a significant increase in the ERP of home rotators (P = 0.003). The data did not demonstrate a statistically significant difference in the CS7 (P = 0.69), or CRS (P = 0.97). CONCLUSION: Our study demonstrated that the only difference in SLOEs is that students are likely to be given a slightly higher estimated placement on the rank order list on a home SLOE. We hope this will help residency leadership with reviewing applications. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2021-01 2020-12-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7806313/ /pubmed/33439798 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2020.12.49086 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Wilson et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Original Research Wilson, David Laoteppitaks, Chaiya Chandra, Shruti A Comparison of Standardized Letters of Evaluation for Emergency Medicine Residency Applicants |
title | A Comparison of Standardized Letters of Evaluation for Emergency Medicine Residency Applicants |
title_full | A Comparison of Standardized Letters of Evaluation for Emergency Medicine Residency Applicants |
title_fullStr | A Comparison of Standardized Letters of Evaluation for Emergency Medicine Residency Applicants |
title_full_unstemmed | A Comparison of Standardized Letters of Evaluation for Emergency Medicine Residency Applicants |
title_short | A Comparison of Standardized Letters of Evaluation for Emergency Medicine Residency Applicants |
title_sort | comparison of standardized letters of evaluation for emergency medicine residency applicants |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7806313/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33439798 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2020.12.49086 |
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